Dissecting APFS and macOS Catalina with Mike Bombich – Mac Geek Gab 796

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English - January 06, 2020 12:30 - 62.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
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Carbon Copy Cloner developer – and APFS guru! – Mike Bombich joins John and Dave this week to talk APFS, backups, upgrades, and more. Listen as your two favorite geeks become your three favorite geeks, sharing everything they know plus some cool stuff found to kick it up a notch into the […]

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00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 796 for Monday, January 6, 2020
CES 2020 Sponsors: iMazing, Other World Computing, TextExpander, Carbon Copy Cloner
00:02:00 Mike Bombich from Bombich Software and Carbon Copy Cloner

Mike Bombich on Background Mode

00:03:58 Graham-APFS Snapshots and Calculating Used Disk Space

diskutil command line utility
Sizing Catalina Snapshots
APFS “Cloning”

00:19:29 Keith-QT-Tell Carbon Copy Cloner to sleep displays while running

#!/bin/zsh
pmset displaysleepnow

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00:27:40 Catalina Volume Groups

Working with APFS Volume Groups

00:40:25 Can I delete my Data volume accidentally?

APFS vs. HFS+ performance

00:43:21 Andrew-HFS+ vs. APFS for external SSDs
00:51:46 Andrew-How to avoid Bit Rot and Corruption?

Backup Health Check

00:58:17 Gary-Performing a speed audit on my Mac?

In kernel panics, look at Extensions in Backtrace
Geekbench
Black Magic Disk Speed Test

01:10:20 Encryption and Clones
01:13:28 CSF-Lockly Fingerprint/Code door locks and Tapplock Fingerprint padlocks
01:16:28 CSF-Smart Oil Gauge
01:20:34 MGG 796 Outtro

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